1967 March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: first major oil spill. Spilled 38 million gallons off the Scilly Islands. 1989 March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska: Tanker hit undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water. 1992 March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan: 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well. 2008 July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge into ocean, causing a halt to all river traffic. 2009 March 11, Queensland, Australia: A container ship came loose on deck and caused the release of 52,000 gallons of heavy fuel and 620 tons of fertalizer into the Coral Sea. 2010 Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: An oil tanker and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of oil. April 24, Gulf of Mexico: A drilling rig sank on after an explosion. Eleven people died in the blast and 1,050,000 gallons were lost. Interactive Camera of the oil slick http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/
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1967March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: first major oil spill. Spilled 38 million gallons off the Scilly Islands.
1989
March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska: Tanker hit undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water.
1992
March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan: 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well.
2008
July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge into ocean, causing a halt to all river traffic.
2009
March 11, Queensland, Australia: A container ship came loose on deck and caused the release of 52,000 gallons of heavy fuel and 620 tons of fertalizer into the Coral Sea.
2010
Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: An oil tanker and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of oil.
April 24, Gulf of Mexico: A drilling rig sank on after an explosion. Eleven people died in the blast and 1,050,000 gallons were lost. Interactive Camera of the oil slick
http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/